What is the name of your railroad?

[grandpopswalt]

I've chosen " Winthrop and Deep River RR", an imaginary NG shortline running between the real world towns of Winthrop, where we live, and Deep River some five miles away.

Walt

[Anonymous]

PANSY
WHY NOT PANSY RULES EXPRESS. BEN

[Anonymous]

My grandad was co-owner of a bunch of Douglas fir timberland and a veneer (plywood) mill in Medford, Oregon, called Elk Lumber. Since I've got a small yard and am obliged to stick with steep grades and tight curves, the lumber theme is a natural fit. So I'm pretending that Elk Lumber got started in the 1920s rather than the 1940s, and used rail rather than roads to haul logs out of the woods. Thus, the Elk Lumber Co. Garden Railway!

[Anonymous]

I haven't quite settled on a name, but it will be something like "Wailing Toad Express", "Wailing Toad Junction", or something along that line.

Part of my outdoor layout circles around my water gardens. While out working on the layout and/or garden, I often encounter toads. At one point of the layout, the toads dug a hole and live under the track. In the spring time, the area around my pond turns into a Toad Brothel during the evening hours.

I'm also planning on adding a mine to my layout. It will be called the Toadinahole mine (toad-in-a-hole).

Jon

[Anonymous]

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the pics etc, enjoyed my visit to your site, to coin a phrase: 'size isn't everything'!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[kstrong]

The Tuscarora Railroad, a narrow gauge railroad located in south central PA connecting with the East Broad Top RR at Shade Gap and the Tuscarora Valley RR at Blair's Mills.


Complete histories (both fictional and historical) can be found at: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kcstrong/trr/History/TRRHistory.html

Later,

K

[Anonymous]

hello the name of my rr is (its going be ) hopefully
A@R IS ANGELS RULES EXPRESS
THANKS pansy

[Anonymous]

When rewiring a real caboose to a 12 and 120 volt operation, a know-it-all conductor inquired why we were increasing the size of the wire. After a brief explaination of watts and current, he exclaimed, "WATTS DON'T MATTER!".
Hence the beginnings of a G scale railroad known as WDMRR

[Anonymous]

1) Skagit Valley Lines - a narrow guage conglomerate

2) Sloan Timber Company - a logging line

[TheJoat]

Mine is the Jackson & Burke Railway. Named mostly because I wanted something to tie in with my wife Jean, and myself - Bruce. So, the J&B RR.
More info over on my home page

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Wild Bill

I was thinkin' of "Eastern Sierra Nevada Desert Railroad" A consolidation of old Southern Pacilfic, Union Pacific, And Virginia and Truckee right of ways Serving Reno, Virginia City, Yerington, Carson City, and several desert comunties around the area.
The fictional back story: It is the late forties, and farming, as well as the mines, have all boomed after the war, and there are many abandoned roads. ESNDRR bought all this up and exsist as a trunk line for both UP, and SP, and operate mostly on the old Virginia and Truckee RR right of ways that it bought up before it went under. They lease trackage to the UP, And SP, so you can see SP, UP, and V&T rolling stock on it at any time! Some right of ways are truly spectacular, crossing desert, through mountains, around lakes, crossing farmland, and going to several mines. Lots of industry to serve here!
Name was selected by chance. A ceremoney was held for the signing of the incorporation papers. As the president of this new and daring enterprise signed the documents, and the railroad became a reality, He stated " May good fortune and saftey rule our future, and may no man put us under!" (ESNDRR)
Wild Bill

Wild Bill, you are a railroader after my own heart! Visit my site below, I have not solidified by backstory yet, but I do have some such material on my Passenger Coach and shop pages.

[Wild Bill]

I was thinkin' of "Eastern Sierra Nevada Desert Railroad" A consolidation of old Southern Pacilfic, Union Pacific, And Virginia and Truckee right of ways Serving Reno, Virginia City, Yerington, Carson City, and several desert comunties around the area.
The fictional back story: It is the late forties, and farming, as well as the mines, have all boomed after the war, and there are many abandoned roads. ESNDRR bought all this up and exsist as a trunk line for both UP, and SP, and operate mostly on the old Virginia and Truckee RR right of ways that it bought up before it went under. They lease trackage to the UP, And SP, so you can see SP, UP, and V&T rolling stock on it at any time! Some right of ways are truly spectacular, crossing desert, through mountains, around lakes, crossing farmland, and going to several mines. Lots of industry to serve here!
Name was selected by chance. A ceremoney was held for the signing of the incorporation papers. As the president of this new and daring enterprise signed the documents, and the railroad became a reality, He stated " May good fortune and saftey rule our future, and may no man put us under!" (ESNDRR)
Wild Bill

[vsmith]

Sticking to the Mexican theme wouldnt COSTA LOTTA MORRO be a little more subtle and subversive?

[Anonymous]

Kimbrit
I agree with you , IT COSTA LOTTA MORE and your never done, you go to train shows and get to many ideas and see to many goodies. ben ----of---- penna. [:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Life-like

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ian, it will probably turn into 'Costa Lotta More' before I've done!!
We've hit 15 degrees by the way - positively tropical!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Anonymous]

I loved Costalotta, just great

ian

[Anonymous]

I was going to use the same name for our garden railroad that I used for our HO layout in the basement, but that idea was nixed by my wife and daughter.

They started me off in garden railroading in 87 with gifts of trains, etc and so they declared they had the right to name the garden RR. The name given is the "Fawn Hill & Stepney Railroad". Fawn Hill is the area of our town where we live and Stepney is located on the other side of town.

George

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kimbrit

I think mine will have to have a Mexican theme so I can justify calling it
the 'COSTA LOTTA RR'[:)]
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

Sunday I went to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico and got a good view of Northern Mexican Railroading. You are going to have to do a lot to dpulicate the lack of maintenance. The railroad lacked signals, was overgrown with weeds and brush (to the point of looking abandonded-it was only a passing train that dispelled this belief).

In times past I have seen families living in old sidetracked Maintenance of Way coaches (?) complete with lassos, clotheslines for washing . Seems like an unusual attempt at public housing.

[jmozz]

Middle bay juction jmozz

[Anonymous]

I think mine will have to have a Mexican theme so I can justify calling it
the 'COSTA LOTTA RR'[:)]
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Anonymous]

hi y'all,
my railway is named after a sea-side mine railway in wales (england) and is called the
levant mine railroad, or lvrr,
hope you like it,
me[?]

[nalts]

I'm still in the early idea stage of my RR. I'm leaning toward the Snake River Railroad. The Snake River runs through our land that we affectionally call the Snake River Ranch, hench the name.

Chris

[Anonymous]

Well I have never cared for the past even regurgitating it and calling it the future. As the past is the past and theirs not much you can do about it as much as you might like too. I have named my railway for the present and the future. I live on Kawana Island and that is in Queensland in the tropics, so i call it Kawana Island tropical railway, even using our Australian idiom of Railway and not Railroad as I live in Australia not the USA.

Howver I was going to add botanical to the name as I like to run my trains through flowers, ferns and the like as that is how I think the world should be.

Regards ian

[Junctionfan]

If I can get the house I am looking for I going to call mine the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad. A modern layout that will be some what big. My history is in 2005 a number of shortlines in Canada and the US consolidated into one railroad. This included Indiana Harbor Belt, Erie Joliet Eastern, Goderich Exeter, Trillium Railways, Rochester Southern, Massachusetts Centreal, Green Mountain Railroad. In 2009 they sucessfully completed a double track mainline from Chicago to Detroit. They also rebuilt the Detroit Tunnel and remade the old Wabash line that went along Lake Erie in Canada to Buffalo. They built a bridge across the Niagara River into Tonawanda eventually to connect into the CSX Belt line which was to be purchased a year later. Until that time the G&A railroad ran mostly steel trains between Chicago and Hamilton, Autoparts trains from Buffalo to Detroit and manifest trains between Chicago and Buffalo. In 2011 the G&A aquired the line running from Niagara Falls NY to Albany. In 2016 they built a line which nearly backrupted them from Albany to Worchester Massachusetts. In 2018 they ran their first intermodal train between Chicago and Boston. In 2019, they ran intermodals between Chicago-Buffalo, Chicago-Toronto, Chicago-Rochester (triple crown) and Detroit-Albany. In 2026 they ran 200 trains a day of which 50 were mainline runs. In 2030 the G&A purchased running rights to run into New York on CSX River Line. My railroad would simulate the CSX River Line in 2030 with G&A trains, CSX and Amtrak. I just wish by the time I can afford it some one will bring out Autoracks and more containers in G as in HO. I would also like to see P42 and AC6000CW engines.

[Anonymous]

Let me make a correction.

I ment Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Nicholas Parker

[Anonymous]

The name of my railroad in consruction is the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad.
It was named after the famous tourist railroad from Dilsdoro NC to Andrews. But I recreated history. The linhe runs from Gatlinburg through Pireon forge to Seveirville Tennessee in the Smokey Mountains.

Nicholas Parker

[Anonymous]

Hi al
I borrowed the name of the the old WAGR narrow gauge railway that used to run to my home town.
so mine is the Eastern Goldfields Railway which is also where I live the Eastern Goldfields of West Australia I concider it to be a private company that conects with the
WAGR and the Numbat Valley Tramway the NVT only just exists at the moment where as the EGR can run trains
If I can talk some sense into a friend of mine it will also
Connect to the Napier Hills Timber Mining and Light railway company
the NHTM&LRC only egsists as a name I came up with when my friend was talking about a garden railway and he and his lady like it but where not that keen on post office red Coaches which has since become the EGR coach Livery
regards John

[Anonymous]

B.AND J. RAIL ROAD ,AFTER MY FIRST NAME AND MY WIFES FIRST NAME BEN ,AND JEAN [2c] BEN